Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin : the Permian Basin, USA /

This two-volume set contains 26 papers covering a breadth of Permian Basin topics, including four papers on the basin's structural geology, tectonics and Precambrian geology, four papers on its paleontology and biostratigraphy, sixteen on its sedimentology and stratigraphy, one on its reservoi...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	American Association of Petroleum Geologists, University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology
Other Authors:	Ruppel, Stephen C. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : Tulsa, Oklahoma : Bureau of Economic Geology, the University of Texas at Austin ; American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2019-2020.
Series:	Report of investigations (University of Texas at Austin. Bureau of Economic Geology) ; no. 285. AAPG memoir ; 118.
Subjects:	Geology > Permian Basin (Tex. and N.M.) Petroleum > Geology > Permian Basin (Tex. and N.M.) Geology, Stratigraphic > Permian. Hydrocarbon reservoirs > Permian Basin (Tex. and N.M.) Permian Basin (Tex. and N.M.) Sedimentary basins > Development.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1. Chapter 1. Anatomy of a Paleozoic basin: the Permian Basin, USA: introduction, overview, and evolution / Stephen C. Ruppel
Chapter 2. Constraints on structural and tectonic interpretations of the Permian Basin based on gravity and magnetic data / G. Randy Keller
Chapter 3. Proterozoic foundations of the Permian Basin, West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico: a review / Thomas E. Ewing, Melanie A. Barnes, and Rodger E. Denison
Chapter 4. Tectonics of the West Texas (Permian) Basin: origins, structural geology, subsidence, and later modification / Thomas E. Ewing
Chapter 5. Post-Permian history of the greater Permian Basin area / Alton Brown
Chapter 6. Silurian-Devonian conodont biostratigraphy in the southern midcontinent region of North America / James E. Barrick and Beverly D. Meyer
Chapter 7. Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian fusulinid biostratigraphy of the Permian Basin region, southwestern USA / Gregory P. Wahlman
Chapter 8. Conodont biostratigraphy of lower Permian (Wolfcampian-Leonardian) stratotype sections of the Glass and Del Norte Mountains, West Texas, USA / Bruce R. Wardlaw and Merlynd K. Nestell
Chapter 9. Integrated fusulinid, conodont, and radiolarian biostratigraphy of the Guadalupian (Middle Permian) in the Permian Basin region, USA / Merlynd K. Nestell, Galina P. Nestell, and Bruce R. Wardlaw
Chapter 10. Geologic review of the lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group of the Permian Basin, West Texas, and southeast New Mexico / Robert G. Loucks and Charles Kerans
Chapter 11. The Middle-Upper Ordovician Simpson Group of the Permian Basin: stratigraphy, lithofacies, and reservoir development / Rebecca R. Harrington
Chapter 12. Patterns of Montoya Group (Middle Ordovician) deposition, diagenesis, and reservoir development in the Permian Basin / Rebecca R. Harrington and Stephen C. Ruppel
Chapter 13. The Fusselman of the Permian Basin: patterns in depositional and diagenetic facies development on a stable platform during the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian icehouse / Stephen C. Ruppel.
Volume 2. Chapter 14. The Middle Silurian-Lower Devonian Wristen Group, Permian Basin: impact of tectonic subsidence on patterns of deposition, diagensis, and reservoir development / Stephen C. Ruppel
Chapter 15. Proximal shallow-water carbonates and distal biosiliceous cherts of the Lower Devonian Thirtyone Formation, Permian Basin / Stephen C. Ruppel, Susan D. Hovorka, and Roger Barnaby
Chapter 16. The Woodford Formation of the Permian Basin: regional, middle to late Devonian transgression of the southern midcontinent and accompanying global anoxia / Stephen C. Ruppel, Harry Rowe, Robert M. Reed, James E. Barrick, E. J. James, and Robert G. Loucks
Chapter 17. The Mississippian system in the Permian Basin: proximal platform carbonates and distal organic-rich mudrocks / Stephen C. Ruppel, Harry Rowe, Robert M. Reed, and Robert G. Loucks
Chapter 18. Pennsylvanian (upper carboniferous) paleodepositional evolution of the Greater Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico: depositional systems and hydrocarbon reservoir analysis / Wayne R. Wright
Chapter 19. Early Permian (Wolfcampian) succession in the Permian Basin: icehouse platform, slope carbonates, and basinal mudrocks / Qilong Fu, Robert W. Baumgardner, Jr., and H. Scott Hamlin
Chapter 20. Lower Permian (Leonardian) platform carbonate succession: deposition and diagenesis during a waning icehouse period / Stephen C. Ruppel
Chapter 21. Lower Permian (Leonardian) deepwater successions in the Midland Basin: lithofacies, stratigraphy, reservoirs, and source rocks / H. Scott Hamlin and Robert W. Baumgardner, Jr.
Chapter 22. The Bone Spring Formation (Leonardian) of the Delaware Basin: deepwater lithofacies and stratigraphy / H. S. Nance and H. Scott Hamlin
Chapter 23. Composite and high-frequency cyclicity in Middle Permian shelf carbonates: the San Andres and Grayburg (Guadalupian) succession in the Permian Basin / Charles Kerans and Stephen C. Ruppel
Chapter 24. Upper Permian Delaware mountain group: record of highstand/lowstand platform shedding / H. S. Nance
Chapter 25. Guadalupian (Artesia Group) and Ochoan shelf successions of the Permian Basin: effects of deposition, diagensis, and structure on reservoir development / H. S. Nance
Chapter 26. Oil and gas production, Permian Basin: a giant conventional oil province being transformed by shale oil production / Eric C. Potter, Mark P. Walsh, Caroline L. Breton, Casee Lemons, and Robert C. Reedy.